Kindness prevails, cruelty fades.

Meaning: When people are kind, their kindness becomes stronger and cruelty becomes weaker.

Choice of Words: Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Prevails means to be more powerful or influential than something else. Cruelty is the quality of being intentionally cruel or causing pain or suffering to others. Fades means to gradually become weaker or less visible. When you put them together, the sentence suggests that kindness has the power to overcome cruelty and create a better world.

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Kindness is the best, meanness goes away.

Meaning: This means that it is better to be kind than to be mean, and that meanness will not last.

Choice of Words: Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Best means most excellent or desirable. Meanness is the quality of being unkind or cruel. Goes away means to disappear or vanish. When you put them together, "Kindness is the best, meanness goes away" means that being kind is better than being mean, and that meanness will eventually disappear.

Nice wins, not nasty.

Meaning: This means that it is better to be kind and friendly than to be unkind and cruel.

Choice of Words: Nice means kind, friendly, or pleasant. Wins means to be victorious or successful. Nasty means unkind, cruel, or unpleasant. When you put them together, "Nice wins, not nasty" means that kindness and friendliness are more likely to be successful than unkindness and cruelty.

Good beats bad.

Meaning: This means that good will always win in the end.

Choice of Words: Good means morally right or virtuous. Beats means to defeat or overcome. Bad means morally wrong or evil. When you put them together, "Good beats bad" means that good will always triumph over evil.

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